saturday tiling an infinite plane with toast
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Pinno wrote:From The Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, by Robert Hendrickson:
The original version of this expression, 'on the water wagon' or 'water cart,' which isn't heard anymore, best explains the phrase. During the late 19th century, water carts drawn by horses wet down dusty roads in the summer. At the height of the Prohibition crusade in the 1890s men who vowed to stop drinking would say that they were thirsty indeed but would rather climb aboard the water cart to get a drink than break their pledges. From this sentiment came the expression 'I'm on the water cart,' I'm trying to stop drinking, which is first recorded in, of all places, Alice Caldwell Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Caggage Patch [1901], where the consumptive Mr. Dick says it to old Mrs. Wiggs. The more alliterative 'wagon' soon replaced cart in the expression and it was eventually shortened to 'on the wagon.' 'Fall off the (water) wagon' made its entry into the language almost immediately after its abstinent sister.
Mine of information!
Spuds were a huge success. 6 year old ate 9 of them. She's now groaning about having to go to bed with a full tummy.0 -
I find him quite funny.0
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I've just finished watching Pirates of the Caribbean 5 - I really quite liked it. 90 odd minutes of harmless amusement.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Sounds just like badger baiting!Matthewfalle wrote:I've just finished watching Pirates of the Caribbean 5 - I really quite liked it. 90 odd minutes of harmless amusement.0 -
Doesn't take that long when done with a flame thrower.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Garry H wrote:Oatcakes are a superfood I tells ya. As soon as I convince triathletes of that, i'll be a millionaire. They'll fit nicely into those poncy little stem bags they use.
They do these Oatcakes with seeds in them at Lidl. They are actually quite palatable but the ordinary, standard Oatcake is the epitome of Calvinism. It's actually genius: tastes of nothing (worse than cardboard), is a chore to eat (penance), consists of the only cereal crop that will grow up here and keeps for months so you don't go hungry in the long winter months when you share the croft with your cattle and the sh1t fumes. I expect that the smell of an Oatcake was pure heaven in comparison but that would run against the vein of the mortal sin that is happiness, pleasure and the enjoyment of life.
In the absence of Kebab shops in the 'heelans' and a skin full of the substitute for marijuana that is Whisky, one might stagger in with a case of the munchies and devour 5 or 6 oatcakes and it's very nature would absorb the surplus liquor in the belly.
So I say hats off to the man who invented a food which summed up the Jocks in a small, round, flat, tasteless and miserable biscuit, guaranteed to make you question your very existence and seek high buildings and bridges for an abatement.
For those who can stomach them, it's only because they must suffer indefinitely through an eternal guilt bred into them from knee high to a midge because that would be God's way of reinforcing a puritanical, 'cleanliness is Godliness' existence.
The eating also serves the dispatch: 10 Oatcakes a day works far better than a colonic irrigation and completes the purification of one's sin ridden soul.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I find them quite inoffensive, personally.0
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I'm enjoying a single malt, whilst listening to Verdi on my headphones.0
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Hang on... Oatcakes, pate, Whisky and Verdi !?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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And chorizo0
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Very multicultural of you Mr H. Do you have to sleep in a separate room?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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He's definitely changed - it used to be Diamond White and an old kebab from behind a telephone box.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Good one pinno that made me laugh,a nice view back in history and religion there.0
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crumbschief wrote:Good one pinno that made me laugh,a nice view back in history and religion there.
You''ll have to come up here and go out for a pint with me in the local 'toon' and then you will see that what I said was quite contemporary.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Matthewfalle wrote:He's definitely changed - it used to be Diamond White and an old kebab from behind a telephone box.
Feck off! It was k cider and a bag of chips from a bin.0 -
K Cider?! So you are posh.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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That sounds good pinno,i have an old urge to go up that way some time,also matty a diamond white and a kebab is a past memory my wife would like to forget haha.0
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Full of snot today, so took things easy. Couple of rest days off the bike, then back on it for Monday's commute.0
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Been sucked into watching Heartbreak Ridge.
So awful.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Matthewfalle wrote:Been sucked into watching Heartbreak Ridge.
So awful.
Best war film?0 -
...but awful enough to be funny and cliche's
"Belly full of beer and a tank full of gas.
mouth full of pu**y and a hand full of ass"
"Say something nice to the fella Swede...
I'm gonna rip off your head and sh1t down your neck".
"Smells like a Ben Gay factory" [Whatever the heck a Ben Gay factory is.]seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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Pinno wrote:...but awful enough to be funny and cliche's
"Belly full of beer and a tank full of gas.
mouth full of pu**y and a hand full of ass"
"Say something nice to the fella Swede...
I'm gonna rip off your head and sh1t down your neck".
"Smells like a Ben Gay factory" [Whatever the heck a Ben Gay factory is.]
John Cooper Clark?0 -
Garry H wrote:Matthewfalle wrote:Been sucked into watching Heartbreak Ridge.
So awful.
Best war film?
That one where the two guys go to Germany to assassinate a German general but they end up in the basement of some building and fight it out until the Germans flood it.
Micheal York in that film where he falls in love with a British spy, He's a bomb expert and blows up a ferry full of people at the end.
I wish I could remember the names of them.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Nah, it's the Heroes of Telemark ya daft cnut.0
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Top Gun but its not a film its a real life POV documentary so doesn't really count for this conversation.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Pinno wrote:...but awful enough to be funny and cliche's
"Belly full of beer and a tank full of gas.
mouth full of pu**y and a hand full of ass"
"Say something nice to the fella Swede...
I'm gonna rip off your head and sh1t down your neck".
"Smells like a Ben Gay factory" [Whatever the heck a Ben Gay factory is.]
True,bit like Navy Seals and Every Which Way But Loose,Philo does a tour.0 -
Pinno wrote:...but awful enough to be funny and cliche's
"Belly full of beer and a tank full of gas.
mouth full of pu**y and a hand full of ass"
"Say something nice to the fella Swede...
I'm gonna rip off your head and sh1t down your neck".
"Smells like a Ben Gay factory" [Whatever the heck a Ben Gay factory is.]
Ben - Gay - American Deep Heat. I have some in my cupboard. I could tell you a story about a tube of Ben-Gay and a Humvee......Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0
